Cooperation used to solve world issues

http://www.ymparisto.fi/default.asp?node=15068&lan=en

This article states that in order to solve the issue of Global Warming, environmental activists will have to cooperate to come up with an answer.

A competition used to solve world issues.

This is an article I found that is a good example of how people use competition to solve world issues. This is a competition where MBA student teams from all over the world come together to compete with each other on finding the best solution to certain world issues. The three main ones this year are Housing, Energy, and Education.  
http://www.aoehome.com/news/home-new/MBA-students-compete-to-solve-world-issues-3236     
How can one person's idea be the best solution for everybody? Wouldn't it be better if all people around the world put there heads together to come up with a solution? A solution that was decided by people all over the world would be a much more effective solution than one that was generated by one specific group of people from one specific place.

Competition or Cooperation as a solution

 I'm thinking I might focus more on competition or cooperation as a means to solve major world problems. I'll focus on how people seem to spend more time destroying another person's opinion than they do with actually solving the problem.

UBUNTU - Anthropologists study

Thanks Mr. Johnston for this image, it is a great example of cooperation in other societies:

Challenge Journal # 1

I want to focus on how North American society is very competitive, and how society in most other cultures are more cooperative. I was thinking about doing these sub-topics:
I wanted to touch upon the connection between competition and alienation. As soon as someone becomes "the enemy" that prevents a person from reaching their goal, they get looked at as an obstacle rather than seen as a person. This alienates them because it takes away the thought that that person is human. I want to look at the alienation of men and women: the ongoing "battle of the sexes", and how men and women treat each other as though they are a separate species, and also how men and women view each other in other cultures. I want to look at the alienation of politicians and common people. How so many people in our society try solving major issues by arguing instead of focusing on the problem and thinking about how to solve it. This is where I am at the moment with my topic. I've posted some links on my blog about the alienation of men and women. 

Complementary sexes idea

This article shows that males and females are complementary; equal but not similar, like two sides of a coin.  http://www.healthlibrary.com/book37_chapter369.htm

Opposite sexes or complementary sexes?

A very interesting article about views on sexes. http://www.soencouragement.org/opposite-or-complementary.htm

Where I Want to Go

Our society competes in almost everything we do. We compete to live. We are taught in schools that competition is healthy. Most people in North America even think that competition is the only way to solve things. In  most other cultures, this is not how they think.
Mr. Johnstons Challenge and Change blog